Data Archive

Certain plugins in PI SMT do not have features to support future data 1. Snapshot and Archive Statistics (is available only through piartool) 2. Current Data does not subscribe to timeseries in Update Manager 3. Stale and Bad tags

Most of the PI Data Archive information that is accessible from PI System Management tools is perfect for a relational database: PI Identities, PI Mappings, PI Point attributes, PI Message Logs, etc. Moving all of this to an SQL Server database w...

I see too often customers struggling to find the right exception and compression settings. When exception/compression are not well defined, they end up having too many values or missing values, what causes a lot of problems when the affected tag i...

Many of the tuning parameters have units, but the unit can only be found in the tuning parameter's description and is not written consistently (sometimes written in full, sometimes abbreviated, sometimes written as a symbol). Linking the tuning pa...

It would be helpful to determine which users or applications made heavy requests to the Data Archive Server. This could be an option to be activated or not. Logging the ip, user identity, concerned tags, duration of the request Those information a...

To take full advantage of AF and substitution parameters it would be great to have a sort of type ID. Now i have to rename all tags to gain this possibility. It would be easy if i could use a portion of the tag name and a  type id. Then i cou...

I have a particular application for storing partial discharge events into the PI Server.  Many of the events are at the same timestamp, which result in multiple events at the same time.

Currently there is a procedure that allows using piconfig to Change Default Tag Attributes however these changes do not impact the defaults of tags created through Point Builder plugin within SMT but works on other clients that allow tag creation ...

Currently, there are two methods to 'shift' archives: 1. "Archive_AutoArchiveFileRoot" set to blank 2. "Archive_OverwriteDataOnAutoShiftFailure" enabled Neither method shifts to dynamic archives. We have three sites that merged PI servers, thus ha...

For customers from special fields (eg: Pharma industry ), they would like the value to be accessed as exactly 16.168 , and would like to know if data type " Decimal " can be introduced for PI tags in PI Data Archive; Just like the following descri...